Subject: Re: bug#64090: Cannot compute a file with a G-exp

From: Simon Tournier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:01:47 +0200

Hi,

On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 at 17:27, "(" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Robby Zambito <[email-masked]> writes:
>> Strangely with-extensions doesn't seem to be including the whole
>> dependency tree for me. Should it?
>
> No, I don't think it should. It *would* be possible to traverse the
> package inputs and add all the GUILE-BUILD-SYSTEM-using packages, but
> then you get the problem that not all Guile packages have their
> dependencies specified in the INPUTS list (for some reason, IIRC, you
> need the Guile dependencies to be in both INPUTS *and* NATIVE-INPUTS,
> but some have them only in NATIVE-INPUTS).
>
> The problem there is that if you have a dependency that's only in
> NATIVE-INPUTS, it's difficult to tell if it's actually used by the
> application or by, say, a build script.

Reading the thread and from my understanding, there is no bug.  Closing?

Else, could you provide more information about the bug?

Cheers,
simon